Holdfast by Annette Skade Christmas25 He was shortlisted for the

He was shortlisted for the 2018 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem and won a Poetry Fellowship from the Arts Foundation in 2019

in the twilit zone between city and country

serve as a backdrop for present-day racial calamities and calls for resistance

bird of winter creates a redemptive language to speak the darkness of being sexually abused by a family member

Katy Wimhurst

Holdfast by Annette Skade Christmas25 He was shortlisted for theConfined by lockdown to her home in Bantry Bay and witnessing its changing face in a time of environmental degradation, Annette Skade began to comb the landscape and archives of her locality in search of connection to the life of one of its most famous residents: nineteenth century botanist Ellen Hutchins, who collected hundreds of seaweeds, lichens, mosses and liverworts and discovered several new species in the course of a short life spent tied to